Great Migration: Passengers of the Bevis, 1638

“The Bevis” left Southampton May 1638 for New England with her master Robert Batten.

The following Lists of New England Emigrants are from Her Majesty's State Paper Office

SOUTHAMPTON.--- The list of the names of Passeng. Intended to shipe themsleues, In the Beuist of Hampton of CL. Tonnes, Robert Batten Mr for Newengland, And thsu by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of the second of May w'th was after the restrayat and they some Dayes gone to sea Before the Kinges Mat'es Proelamacon Came boto South'uon. No. of Persons.

Alphabetical order:

• Alcocke Francis 26, servant
• Austin Richard of Bishopstocke 40, Taylor , his wife and 2 children (From Bishop's Stoke, Hampshire, bound for Charlestown, MA. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 60.)
• Banshott Tho 14, Carpenter servant
• Batt Christopher of Sarcum, 37, Tanner
• Batt Anna 32, Chirstopher's wife
• Batt Dorothis Batt 20, Chirstopher's sister
• Batt children, 5 under 10 years
• Bayley Richard 15, servant
• Blackston Eliza 22, Batt Servant
• Byley Henery of Saru 26, tanner
• Byley Mary 22
• Byley John 20, Byley servant
• Carpenter William of Horwell /Wherwell 62, carpenter (From Wherwell, Hampshire, bound for Weymouth and Rehoboth, MA. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 64)
• Carpenter William Jr. of Horwell 33, carpenter
• Carpenter Abigael 32
• Carpenter children, 4 10 or under
• Dum Richard of New England 40 (Dummer, Richard, listed as aboard the Whale. 36 pg 60)
• Dum Alice 35
• Dum Tho 19 (Dummer, Thomas, from North Stoneham, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 62)
• Dum Joane 19
• Dum Jane 10
• Dum Steephen, husbandman (Dummer, Stephen from Bishop's Stoke, Hampshire, bound for Mewbury. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 60)
• Dum Dorothie 6
• Dum Richard 4
• Dum Tho 2
• Durdal Hough, Littlefield servant
• Ffrey John of Basing, Whelwrite , wife and 3 children (From Basingstroke, Hampsjire, bound for Newbury. Ref: NEGR 8/226. 36 pg 60.)
• Good Thomas 24, Batt Servant
• Hutchinson John 30, carpenter, servant
• Knight John, carpenter and Littlefield servant
• Knight Robert 37, Carpenter Servant to R. Austin
• Littlefield Annis 38
• Littlefield children, 6
• Moll Adam 19, Taylor, servant
• Parker Nathaunel 20, servant of London Backer
• Pond Rebecca,18, Batt Servant
• Poore Samuel 18, servant
• Poore Da'yell 14, servant
• Poore Alce 20, servant
• Reemes Tho, Byley servant (Reeves, Thomas, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, boudn for Roxbury. Ref: Hotten. 36 pg 180)
• Wackefeild Anna 20, Servant Wackefeild Will. 22, servant

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• Listing order:
• Ffrey John of Basing, Whelwrite , wife and 3 children
• Austin Richard of Bishopstocke 40, Taylor , his wife and 2 children
• Knight Robert 37, Carpenter Servant to R. Austin
• Batt Christopher of Sarcum, 37, Tanner
• Batt Anna 32, Chirstopher's wife
• Batt Dorothis Batt 20, Chirstopher's sister
• Batt children, 5 under 10 years
• Good Thomas 24, Batt Servant
• Blackston Eliza 22, Batt Servant
• Pond Rebecca,18, Batt Servant
• Carpenter William of Horwell /Wherwell 62, carpenter
• Carpenter William Jr. of Horwell 33, carpenter
• Carpenter Abigael 32
• Carpenter children, 4 10 or under
• Banshott Tho 14, Carpenter servant
• Littlefield Annis 38
• Littlefield children, 6
• Knight John, carpenter and Littlefield servant
• Durdal Hough, Littlefield servant
• Byley Henery of Saru 26, tanner
• Byley Mary 22
• Reemes Tho, Byley servant
• Byley John 20, Byley servant
• Dum Richard of New England 40
• Dum Alice 35
• Dum Tho 19
• Dum Joane 19
• Dum Jane 10
• Dum Steephen, husbandman
• Dum Dorothie 6
• Dum Richard 4
• Dum Tho 2
• Huthcinson John 30, carpenter, servant
• Alcocke Francis 26, servant
• Moll Adam 19, Taylor, servant
• Wackefeild Will. 22, servant
• Parker Nathaunel 20, servant of London Backer
• Poore Samuel 18, servant
• Poore Da'yell 14, servant
• Poore Alce 20, servant
• Bayley Richard 15, servant
• Wackefeild Anna 20, Servant

The nomb'r of passeng'rs aboue mentioned are Sixtie and one Soules.

Tho: Wurfres Coll. And Sear' Hen: Champante Cust's. D. Dingley Compt'r

[Endorsement.]- Southotn, 1628. The sert. And list of the Passeng'rs names gone for New England in the Bevis of Hampton, in May 1638.

Notable passengers

• Richard Austin, whose descendants of the same surname name would include Moses Austin, Stephen F. Austin, and Emily Austin Perry who collectively are credited with settling the State of Texas.
• William Carpenter from Shalbourne whose Rehoboth Carpenter family descendants included many politicians, generals, admirals and an astronaut.
• Richard Dummer, who had previously emigrated in 1632 as an organizer of and investor in the failed Plough Company (Lygonia Providence).

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevis_%28ship%29

"The Bevis passenger list describes William2 and his father as “of Horwell,” that is, Whorwell (now Wherwell), in Horwell Hundred, Hampshire, about 15 miles south-south-east of Shalbourne. Wherwell, which had a tradition of religious dissent—at least two of its vicars, Stephen Bachiler (1587–1605)[15] and his probable brother-in-law John Bate (1605–1633), were nonconformists—lies on a straight line from Shalbourne to the Bevis’s port of departure, at Southampton. (Another Bevis passenger in 1638 was Richard Dummer, who, with kinsman Bachiler, had been a partner in the Plough Company, which had recruited dissenters for migration to New England in 1631 and 1632.) It is clear from the chronology of Carpenter records at Shalbourne that the family was at Wherwell for a few months at most. It is indeed possible that they paused there only long enough to obtain from sympathetic authorities the certificates of conformity (one for each man) that customs officials would require for the Carpenters to leave England and from which the residence recorded for them on the passenger list was probably copied (TAG 70:193–94, 195n14; NEHGR 14:336; Old Hampshire Maps; see also “Focus on the Planter,” GMN 15, no. 4)."[16]

References

• http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/bevis1638.shtml
• http://www.calaisalumni.org/Maine/ships.htm#Bevis
• http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/bevis.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevis_(ship)
  • 16. Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole, FASG. "Carpenter Sketches" specifically Sketch 2 of 12 located at: https://carpentercousins.com/Wm2_Rehoboth.pdf - reference date October 22, 2018, citation codes within the quote are fully explained at the end of the sketch given.